I second that, bleybourne! I loved the game until the fortress defense. I have slogged through 7 stages of it, and, having taken a break from it, I'm not sure that I will finish it.

It was bad enough at first when it was just one fortress per stage, but then it started being two and I just lost the will to keep doing the same thing over and over and over. I think I stopped at Stage 7 like you. I am very unlikely to go back to it either, which is a shame because the rest of the game was fun.

This game started off really well like Shadow of Mordor, but Act 4 is an absolute joke. They decided they were just going to throw on about 10 hours of grinding the exact same thing over and over again and make your army way underpowered if you don't buy their loot crates.